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Science Centre gathers dust
Vijayawada: The Regional Science Centre, affiliated to Andhra Pradesh State Council of Science & Technology (APCOST), has lost its sheen due to paucity of employees. There is literally no staff to guide the visiting students whose number is also on the wane
Vijayawada: The Regional Science Centre, affiliated to Andhra Pradesh State Council of Science & Technology (APCOST), has lost its sheen due to paucity of employees.
There is literally no staff to guide the visiting students whose number is also on the wane for obvious reasons. Even three years after bifurcation, the only Science Centre in the State has been deprived of trained guides, thanks to red tapism in administration.
The Science Centre is charging Rs 10 for students from private institutions and Rs 5 for government school students towards entry fee.
Earlier, the centre used to bear the travel, lodging and boarding charges of students visiting the centre from different districts on education tour. Now, such benefits become a thing of the past.
Apart from educating the students, who visit the centre, it would make arrangements for the Science Day celebrations and presenting awards to Andhra Pradesh scientists. It will also represent the Indian Science Congress wherever it is held. The recent one concluded in Tirupati.
Even though the APCOST has 40 employees, only six have been allotted to the Regional Science Centre making its function more difficult. The Science Centre needs additional 11 staff for the smooth functioning of the Regional Science Centre.
Two project officers, two employees for administration and accounts, three junior assistants, six field staff are the minimum need to run the regional centre.
The government administration, sources said, was not in a mood to understand the dire need of staff at the centre. Some schools in the State functioning with 10:6 ratio of students to teachers.
Teachers from such schools can be deputed to the regional centre to help the visiting students know scientific things in detail. Even if the authorities make such an arrangement with at least three teachers, the students visiting the centre would feel happy that their visit to the centre was worth memorable.
They would spread the message to other students and motivate them to visit the centre. But the students visiting the centre now were returning with disappointment.
This situation needs to be changed keeping in mind the necessity for students learn scientific things from the only regional centre.
